Advise
Capital strategy
Fundraising narratives, investor readiness, and disciplined growth plans.
Client overview
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Energy advisory · Venture studio · Fund in formation
Turning impossible energy projects into reality.
Founder-side execution from interconnects, feedstock, and offtake through capital and tax credits—so ambitious energy infrastructure can get contracted, financed, and built.
02The challenge
Hard energy problems do not become companies on capital alone.
Critical operating and financing decisions demand founder-aligned judgment—not advice from the sidelines.
Sharon Creek works alongside builders raising capital, scaling operations, navigating strategic outcomes, and creating new businesses in difficult energy markets.
03The approach
Experience and capital, applied where they compound.
One founder-side platform for capital strategy, board leadership, venture building, and development capital.
Govern
Board leadership
Founder-aligned guidance through critical operating and financing decisions.
Build
Venture studio
New companies formed from scratch around high-conviction energy opportunities.
Invest
Development capital
A fund in formation to back businesses where experience and capital compound.
04How Sharon Creek works
With the builder, through the consequential moments.
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Raise
Build the narrative, readiness, and growth plan for the next capital milestone.
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Grow
Add founder-aligned perspective to operating and financing decisions.
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Navigate
Work through strategic outcomes and transactions in difficult energy markets.
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Build
Turn a high-conviction energy opportunity into a new company from the ground up.
05Active efforts
Focusing attention where complex energy systems could become companies.
These are areas of interest receiving more time and attention, or where Sharon Creek may be closer to lining up an opportunity. They are not current client engagements.
Nuclear fuel refinement
Supporting companies working on critical fuel-cycle infrastructure.
Woody waste to fuel
Helping turn difficult woody residuals into useful low-carbon fuels.
Agricultural waste to fuel
Building pathways from agricultural residues to scalable energy products.
06Founder experience
Built before.
Building again.
Before founding Sharon Creek Ventures in June 2026, Sam Schutte co-founded Synthica Energy and helped guide it from angel funding into utility partnership and institutional infrastructure capital.
- 2017Synthica Energy founded to develop food-waste-to-renewable-natural-gas infrastructure.
- 2021Joint venture announced with UGI Energy Services to develop food-waste digester projects.
- 2023Infrastructure equity investment closed with Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Synthica Energy is prior founder experience. Sharon Creek Ventures is a separate, independent firm. Public transaction announcements described Goldman Sachs’ investment terms as undisclosed.
07The difference
An operator at the table—not advice from the sidelines.
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Founder-side perspective
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Board-level judgment
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Capital and operating fluency
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High-conviction energy focus
08Next step
Build the next energy company with an operator at the table.
If you are raising capital, adding board-level perspective, or turning a hard energy problem into a new business, we would like to hear what you are building.
Start a conversationinfo@sharoncreek.com
513-382-8499